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Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money.
The good news is that the big tech companies have the capacity to each borrow hundreds of billions more money than they currently do.
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Alibaba Group’s shift from open-source AI models is becoming more apparent. On Thursday, the Chinese tech giant, which has become a global leader in open-source models in the past two years, launched a new large language model called Qwen3.6-Plus, touting its “significant advancement in agentic ... Read more ›
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Tesla delivered 358,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a 6% year-over-year increase, the company said in a filing on Thursday. Deliveries in the first quarter were still lower than the same periods in 2023 and 2024, according to Tesla’s disclosures. They also undershot an analyst consensus ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Thursday released three new AI models, building on the small but growing catalog of models it has trained internally as it aims to become more self-sufficient in AI. The three models are called MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, and are meant to transcribe audio, have ... Read more ›
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Amazon is in talks to acquire satellite company Globalstar, which provides backup texting services for iPhones, the Financial Times reported. The move would bolster Amazon’s efforts to compete with SpaceX, which has also considered buying Globalstar. Any acquisition of Globalstar would be ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has acquired TBPN, the popular tech news talk show that has become a hit over the last year with an enthusiastic embrace of AI and Silicon Valley. OpenAI didn’t say how much it had paid for TBPN, which was reportedly on track for $60 million in revenue this year. TBPN will have editorial ... Read more ›
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The cybersecurity field is buzzing about an upcoming Anthropic AI model that could be used by hackers to “exploit [security] vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” according to a draft blog post the company mistakenly made public.Anthropic has been briefing cybersecurity researchers and is giving them early access to the model, which is said to be better than past models at generating and reviewing computer code.... Read more ›
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The Department of Defense on Thursday appealed a federal judge’s order to temporarily halt the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The appeal was expected; Judge Rita Lin’s preliminary injunction from last week included a seven-day administrative stay giving the Pentagon ... Read more ›
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